Where does “plerique” come from?

plerique (Latin) comes from Latin plerusque, from Latin -que, from Proto-Italic -kʷe, from Proto-Indo-European -kʷe — and; Forms distributives from interrogatives.

plerique (Latin): most of them; most people, most men, the...

Definitions

  1. most of them; most people, most men, the...

Ancestry of “plerique”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinplerusquemost, very many, most of, the greater larger...
2Latin-queand, a copulative particle affixed to the word it...
3Proto-Italic-kʷeand; Forms distributives from interrogatives
4Proto-Indo-European-kʷeand; Forms distributives from interrogatives
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -kʷe →Every word from Latin -que →Every word from Proto-Italic -kʷe →